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What is the very basic source of wealth in this world?

How the wealth is being created in this world like, farming, minning, manufacturing etc, and who can be credited with this creation as a primery and/or secodary source

Public Comments

1. Natural resources. Like oil! Turns into war, which then leads to the military hardware. The biggest business in the world!
2. What? Is it onions?
3. The robbery of natural resources is your answer. Farming takes the most effort and therefore has to be admired, failure to farm results in extinctions, in the case of deforestation, our own.
4. Natural Resources
5. Human beings.aka us.
6. Control of resources, starting with land. Everything else flows from that with very few exceptions.
7. MONEY
8. people.the wealthy are the people who exploit other people.
9. I'd say: water. The root of the word 'material,' and of 'materialism' in Hebrew stems from water. Source of all agriculture, source of life. If you had a lot of gold or diamonds, but no access to food, you wouldn't be wealthy. I think it all starts with water.
10. The basic source of wealth are the five elements. The earth supports the life systems by helping plants to grow with the help of water, air and fire (sun light). Everything else springs from this basic source.
11. Wealth is created through the trade of manufactured goods, commodities, and services. It sounds pretty simple, but if you don't have something to provide, another person will not pay you with their gold, currency, or whatever else is agreed to be exchanged in the transaction. Natural resources are a primary source for this wealth but in actuality only one part of the equation. If you play Civilization, you'll also notice that technology plays a great role. Technology is one of the major reasons the United States is the world's only real superpower right now. Countries that are ahead in technology are more capable of exploiting their natural resources to create a product that can be sold overseas in great demand or using them to acquire additional territories with needed resources (i.e. imperalist Japan). Another source is labor. Labor is perhaps just as important as resources and technology. If the people of your country are not willing to work or do not work, your nation's productivity will fall. Lower productivity means, obviously, less production and less to sell on the open markets.
12. innovation is where the wealth is being created and it does not matter in what area.